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Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot
Age: 76 †
Born: 1888
Born: September 26
Died: 1965
Died: January 4
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The destination cannot be described / You will know very little until you get there / You will journey blind.
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Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire / Before you know what is left to be desired / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
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I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?
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